I love those "Life" photographs. I'm not sure if this is so, but those photos remind me a little of Viggo's photographic work -- very un-posed, slightly dreamlike and sometimes focused. And those bands of light across the table. I wonder if Viggo had some sort of artistic influence on Elijah.

Do not speak to us of the greatness of poetry, Of the torches wisping in the underground, Of the structure of vaults upon a point of light. There are no shadows in our sun, Day is desire and night is sleep. There are no shadows anywhere.